THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE REPLACEMENTS! Well, sort of. Color Me Obsessed doesn't feature any of the influential indie band's members, or a note of their alternately anarchic and aching music.  Rather, the unlikely rise and fall of the band is chronicled by fans and and associates (and funded by Kickstarter).  Although there are obvious limitations to this approach, there is something esssentially replacements about it.  After all, half the time, the 'Mats fans seemed more interested in the band's fate than the band itself.

BEN SOLLEE stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE CRAMPS: Lux and Ivy's Favorites, Vols. 1-11.

HOLIDAY CHEER: WFUV has a stream of the full concert -- and individual sets from Lake Street Dive, Shelby Lynne, Steve Earle, Shawn Colvin and Lucinda Williams.

SOUNDCHECK'S BEST PERFORMANCES of 2012: Part One and Part Two.

THE FIFTH BEATLE:  Most people forget that brief period when David Lee Roth fronted the Fabs. (slight profanity)

THE BEATLES: Henry Grossman releases an expensive book of previously unseen photos from his trove of over 7000 snaps.

ANDY SUMMERS, who just turned 70, walks The A.V. Club through his Police records (and more).

ADAM YAUCH: The NYT Magazine profile of the late Beastie contains a number of sublime sentences.

POTENTIAL 2013 BREAKOUTS, courtesy of PopMatters.

PATTI PAGE, the apple-cheeked, honey-voiced alto whose sentimental, soothing, sometimes silly hits like “Tennessee Waltz,” “Old Cape Cod” and “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?” made her one of the most successful pop singers of the 1950s, has died at 85.

CUTOUT BIN: From Luis Baclov to the Pretenders, from Teenage Fanclub to Fontella Bass, from ABC to XTC, plus Paul Westerberg, The The, Allah-Las and more -- this year's final fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: Texas Chainsaw 3-D is the weekend's sole wide release, which was not screened for critics. Shocka. A good weekend to catch up on holiday releases you missed.

KIM KARDASHIAN is venting to close friends about her estranged husband, Kris Humphries,parhaps in part because the law would presume (probably incorrectly) that he's the father of her child. Jenny Craig is not interested in signing her to a Jessica Simpson type deal.

JUSTIN BIEBER was stalked and harassed by the photographer who was killed while taking pictures of the singer's car on New Year's Day, and he lied about J.B. smoking pot, according to sources connected with Bieber.

ZOE SALDANA & BRADLEY COOPER are reportedly dunzo again.

LINDSAY LOHAN was paid 100K to party with Brunei's Prince Azim on NYE.

BROOXE MULLER obtained a six-figure settlement from a rehab facility she accused of leaking private information to the tabloid press.

JULIANNE HOUGH claims she was abused as a child.

THE BLACK LIST: Sorry this is a .pdf Acrobat file, but these are Hollywood's most-buzzed-about screenplays.

THE UNITED KINGDOM: Abid Naseer, wanted by the US on terror charges relating to an al Qaeda plot to bomb New York subways, was extradited to the US.

SYRIA: Heavy fighting raged around Taftanaz military airport in northwest Syria. Aleppo's international airport remained under siege. Government forces attacked the rebel stronghold of Daraya in Damascus.

LIBYA: Gunmen from a militant Islamist group kidnapped Abdulsalam al Mihdawi, the acting head of criminal investigation in Benghazi. The militants attacked al Mihdawi and two colleagues in his car as it waited at a stoplight in the city.

EGYPT: The Muslim Brotherhood claimed that the recent arrest of some of its members in the United Arab Emirates was unwarranted. Egypt's opposition liberal and secular groups prepared to create a new political party to contest upcoming parliamentary elections. A senior Muslim Brotherhood official said that Israel would cease to exist within a decade.

A FOX plays fetch.

SUITCASE FULL OF LOBSTER: Not a progressive rock album.

COLO the GORILLA -- the first to be born in a zoo -- celebrated her 56th birthday.

FINCHES were tricked into changing their tune.